17 Facts About Orkut

Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google.

Orkut was one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008.

In 2008, Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte.

Unlike Facebook, where one can only view profile details of people in their network, Orkut initially allowed anyone to visit everyone's profile, unless a potential visitor was on a person's "Ignore List" .

Orkut's competitors were other social networking sites including Myspace and Facebook.

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An Orkut user was able to add videos to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video with the additional option of creating either restricted or unrestricted polls for polling a community of users.

The themes were eventually removed and an Orkut badge was visible for those who didn't change to the new Orkut.

Orkut allowed users to sign in with their Google Mail, or Gmail, credentials.

Since the New Orkut introduced a privacy control for scraps posted to the scrapbook, the messages system was disabled in this version, but not for those still using the old version.

In 2005, incidents of racism among Orkut users were reported to police and were documented in Brazilian media.

Orkut had a Report Abuse feature available for all communities.

Orkut was very popular in Iran, but the website was then blocked by the government.

Many other sites have been published in Iran since Orkut's blockage, using the same social-networking model – examples include MyPardis, Cloob and Bahaneh.

Orkut's experiment confirmed that the sessions remain alive for 14 days after the user has logged out.

The word Orkut was written in Devanagari script and was coloured in Indian national colours.

Besides the NDPS, according to some media reports, the police were deliberating on the issue of charging the accused under the Information Technology Act, 2000 perhaps because Orkut was believed to be a mode of communication for drug abuses of this kind.

Police in India have entered into an agreement with Orkut to have a facility to catch and prosecute those misusing Orkut since complaints are rising.